The entire Bible speaks about the principle of transference, how God makes a way to transfer His attributes to us and how He takes our sins and iniquities and transfers them to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Animal sacrifices in the Old Testament were based upon the principle that the innocent are able to take the guilt of the guilty, and the guilty can take the innocence of the innocent.
Isaiah 53 speaks of the principle of transference. Verse 6b: The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Verse 5: … he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The first and the most important announcement about Jesus was made by John the Baptist; Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29b.
We cannot make ourselves righteous. Righteousness is an attribute of God that is given to us. When God quickens our spirit righteousness is put on our account in heaven.
In order for our spirit to become alive unto God, the Father has to draw us to Himself, and the Holy Spirit has to convict us of sin, righteousness and judgment. The Holy Spirit has to work in us, so that we are willing to surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over lives, to make a decision to repent from living independently of him.
The Holy Spirit works in us to will, we are yielding our spirit to the Lord, and he quickens it, commands light to shine in it, and puts a yes in it to the will of God.
When our spirit becomes alive unto God, we become aware of His presence, and his love for us. We experience a joy we never had before, an excitement and we tell other people that Jesus is real, he is alive. We are accounted righteous.
Now the Holy Spirit has to work in us to do God’s will, we are powerless in ourselves, and we need his strength, his righteousness worked within us. We have to learn how to seek first his righteousness.
Why did Jesus have to die? It was not a matter of punishment; it was a matter of substitution. Christ died for our sins. All of our iniquities were laid upon Him, and He died for them. This means that all of His righteousness can be laid upon us, and we can stand before God as His sons. This is the basic concept of transference.
Pain and suffering, death, is a result of sin, and Jesus experienced it in his soul and body, so that we might experience his life in our soul and body.
The devil has to accept God’s world and its laws. He does not have the capacity to make any laws or even to violate the laws of nature. Only because he understands them better than man does, can he use them to his advantage. He tunes in to what God has created and does his best to distort it or to use God’s laws for his purposes. That is how he creates the problems of the world.
For example, God wants marriage to be a real blessing for people, but Satan perverts God’s laws of sex and marriage and thereby creates misery and unhappiness.
In witchcraft, Satan uses the principle of transference to create oppression by transferring from the guilty to the innocent, but not in a redemptive way. Through witchcraft, evil and devil-possessed people can transfer their oppression and evil to someone who is trying to serve God. But he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.
On the day of Pentecost, The people mocked the believers who had been filled with the Holy Spirit, saying that they were drunk with new wine. Peter stood up with the eleven, and they beamed the fullness that was in them toward those thousands of people. Whatever there was in those people that would resist God was suddenly overcome because a countertide was created.
Isaiah 59:19b tells us, When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. In the Hebrew, the expression “lift up a standard” involves more than an army going out to battle. It means that the army is victorious in scattering the enemy. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit will lift up a counterforce that will scatter the enemy. This is exactly what the Lord does when the fullness of the Holy Spirit comes. On the day of Pentecost, the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit; and as they spoke, the resistance in the people melted away and thousands of them came to the Lord.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. I John 5:4. It is very important that we learn how to be an overcomer, how to walk with God and overcome the world. Much of it is dependent upon our initiative. We have to turn it loose. We have to believe. The fullness of the Spirit is not forced on us by God. We must seek it. we must hunger after it, Hunger after God with all of our heart. Being filled with the Spirit of the Lord is not just for our own good feeling. It is a force that God must put within us to come against the world.
Another passage which shows us that the fullness of God is a key to start the promises of God working in our lives is Ephesians 3:19b–21. Be filled with all the fulness of God. (Notice that we are to be filled with all the fullness of God.) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. How do we get Him to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think? It is by the power that works within us which comes about by being filled with all the fullness of God.
We cannot come against the powers of the devil as a human being. We will be defeated in that. We are not strong enough or wise enough. With our limited human wisdom and our limited human capacity, we do not know how to come against the powers of darkness, against demons who work against us with their cunning. That is why God fills us with Himself. Then the need can be met. Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
It is the fullness of the Lord and our initiative of faith to meet the enemy objectively in the Spirit that makes the difference. If it is a feud, a subjective human action, we will never have the victory. When we decide that the battle is God versus Satan, and we face the problems objectively, with full dedication to do the will of the Lord, then we will win.